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... The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d, 5 The cattle huddled on the lea; And w... ...o down beside thy native rill, 5 On thy Parnassus set thy feet; And hear thy laurel whisper sweet About the ledges of the hill.’ And my Melpomene repl... ...allow’d ground. 118 In Memoriam CIV. TO NIGHT ungather’d let us leave This laurel, let this holly stand: We live within the stranger’s land, And str...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of ...

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...ich is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and val- leys whic... ...ed Saxons. THE SUN WA S SETTING upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds o... ...f him,” said Gurth, “and the mother of mischief confound the Ranger of the forest, that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs, and makes them unfit for thei... ... “Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about *The Ranger of the Forest, that cuts the fore-claws off our dogs. 10 Ivanhoe on their four le... ... lay upon the grass beside him. This second Eumæus strode hastily down the forest glade, driving before him, with the assistance of Fangs, the whole h... ...d day, with a coronet composed of thin gold plate, cut into the shape of a laurel crown. On this second day the knightly games ceased. But on that whi... ...since every one desired to know who the knight was that had gained so many laurels, yet had refused, even at the command of Prince John, to lift his v...

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......................................................................... 474 FOREST HISTORY ............................................................... ...ur and softness; Vales where sweet life is all Summer with golden romance: Forests that glimmer with twilight round revel-bright palaces; Here in our ... ...t, By the blue marsh-hovering oils: O the fools for all their moans! Not a forest mad with fire Could still their teeth, or warm their bones, Or loose... ...od-stridden courser, T ossing high its foamy mane. 46 Then he swims thro’ laurelled sunlight, Full of all sensations sweet, Misty with his morning in... ...r, Lo, the tall Peneian virgin Stands beneath her bathing bower. There the laurell’ d wreaths o’erarching Crown’ d the dainty shuddering maid; There t... ... o’erarching Crown’ d the dainty shuddering maid; There the dark prophetic laurel Kiss’d her with its sister shade. There the young green glistening l... ...y orb has vanished, And the bright sun thrones the skies! V oicelessly the forest Virgin Vanished! but one look she gave – Keen as Niobean arrow Thro’... ...bids him weep and stop. – He above each drop of crimson Shadowing—like the laurel leaf That above himself will shadow – Sheds a fadeless look of grief... ...the verge of life,—then flee! All the white ambrosial beauty Is a lustrous Laurel T ree! Still with the great panting love-chase All its running sap i...

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...y walk In the woods, and weep, and quarrel, Staring past the pink wild laurel, Mix me with your talk, Do not let me die! Farmers at your raking,... ...er doubt that Pan Lived, and played a reed, and ran After nymphs in a dark forest, In the merry, credulous days,— Lived, and led a fairy band Over the...

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...l round China goes, And on one side the desert blows, And with the voice and bell and drum, Cities on the other hum;— Where are forests hot as fire, W... ...you never could draw, But he’s sure to be present, abroad or at home, When children are happy and playing alone. He lies in the laurels, he runs on th... ...lk and sing, And do not play at anything. Now, with my little gun, I crawl All in the dark along the wall, And follow round the forest track Away behi... ...ut on tiny trips; And above the Daisy tree Through the grasses, High o’erhead the Bumble Bee Hums and passes. In that forest to and fro I ca... ...d on high See the greater swallows pass In the sky, And the round sun rolling by Heeding no such things as I. Through that forest I can pass Till... ...ild’s Garden of V erses II Nest Eggs Birds all the summer day Flutter and quarrel Here in the arbour-like Tent of the laurel. Here in the fo... ...st as I should like to do. He has seen the starry hours And the springing of the flowers; And the fairy things that pass In the forests of the grass. ...

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...y . . . . . . . 288 Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest - iv - . . . . . . . . 289 The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imit... ...ght? Caprice which rais’d thee high shall hurl thee low, Or Envy blast the laurels on thy brow. To such poor joys could ancient Honour lead When e... ...lm abode I came, with Learning’s meed not unbestowed! When as she twin’d a laurel round my brow, And met my kiss, and half return’d my vow, O’er a... ...r wind: I will slumber, careless lying, By yon waterfall reclin’d. In the forest hollow-roaring Hark! I hear a deep’ning sound — Clouds rise thic... ...hou bad’st Oppression’s hireling crew rejoice Blasting with wizard spell my laurell’d fame. - 98 - Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the... ...ream, Where Susquehannah pours his untamed stream; And on some hill, whose forest-frowning side Waves o’er the murmurs of his calmer tide, Will ra... ...zzling form, broad-bosomed, bold of eye, And wild her hair, save where with laurels bound. Not more majestic stood the healing God, When from his b... ... to them, Unless perchance it were Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet ... ...ar, my belovØd, an old Milesian story! — High, and embosom’d in congregated laurels, Glimmer’d a temple upon a breezy headland; In the dim distance...

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... hill—a shocking bad road it was—and all the hillside was thick, thick oak-forest, with deer in it. There was no trace of Weland, but presently I saw ... ...our King, the Conqueror’s son, died of a secret arrow while he hunted in a forest. “This is a cross matter,” said De Aquila, “to meet on the threshold... ...al runs three days’ sail out from that land, and south of the shoal lies a Forest which grows in the sea. South and east of the Forest my father came ... ...en days (counting time by sword-cuts on the helm-rail) till we came to the Forest in the Sea. T rees grew there out of mud, arched upon lean and high ... ...ns of dealing blows in battle, and pointed up to the tree-tops, and to the forest behind. Their captain or chief sorcerer then beat on his chest with ... ... Gods (they were respectable householders), and then he grunted across the laurels: “Listen, young sometimes-one-thing-and-some- times-another. In fut...

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...med his dazzling, almost frighteningly handsome features, crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves. His eyes, brown in some lights, gold in others, ha... ...softness, she inhaled the aroma of mountain winds and sea salt, blossoms and pine forests and a wealth of other scents. When she touched the ground... ...grew in mossy clefts and on the edge of the pool. Bordering the mountains, a vast forest of oak and elm swept its branches skyward. Even above the ... ...e off the feeling he was not alone. Far above the outstretched arms of the nearby forest, beneath the slate cliff, a red kite hovered, its haunting... ..., squirrels. The doe gave him one last affectionate nuzzle, then trotted into the forest, and the squirrels scampered up a nearby oak. Myrddin wal... ...proceeded with some caution. Myrddin loved and respected all the creatures of the forests and mountains; he knew their ways and feared none of them...

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... Poem: At The Close ........................................................................................................................ 28 Poem: Forest History....................................................................................................................... 28 Poem: A Garden Idyl .......................................................................

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.................................................................... 28 Poem: Forest History................................................................ ..., Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line... ...ody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-li... ...s, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her rally, and her dart, In the forest’s cavern heart, T ells of her victorious aim. Then is pause and chat... ...rs that burn in dew. 10 A Reading of Life Comes there a tremor of night’s forest horn Across her garden from the insaner crew, She darkens to maligni... ... funeral tone. And doth the man pursue a tightened zone, Then be it as the Laurel God he runs, Confirmed to win, with countenance the Sun’s. Should pi...

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...rds of Virgil. ................ 99 CANTO XXVIII. The Earthly Paradise.—The Forest.—A Lady gathering flowers on the bank of a little stream.—Discourse ... ...onides, Agathon, and many other Greeks who of old adorned their brows with laurel. There of thine own people 16 are seen Antigone, Deiphile, and Argi... ... XXVIII. O XXVIII. O XXVIII. O XXVIII. O XXVIII. The Earthly Paradise.—The Forest.—A Lady gathering flowers on the bank of a little stream.—Dis- cours... ... nature of the place. FAIN NOW TO SEARCH within and round about the divine forest dense and living, which tempered the new day to my eyes, without lon... ...rden to their rhymes, such as gathers from bough to bough through the pine forest upon the shore of Chiassi, when Aeolus lets forth Sirocco. 1 Now had... ... thine, so far as may suffice.” “The water,” said I, “and the sound of the forest, impugn within me recent faith in something that I heard contrary to...

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...ng at the brim,             And purple-stained mouth;     That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,         And with thee fade away into the forest dim:   III Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget     What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret     Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shake...

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...ritten in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition On the Grasshopper and Cricket After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned Hymn to Apollo Written on the Blank Space of a Leaf at the End of Chaucer's "Tale of the Flowre and the Lefe" To Leigh Hunt, Esq. ...

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... engineer, head of the immigration bureau, and superintendent of woods and forests; “but your own people won’t go about to make more than a fair profi... ...r in Con- necticut.” “Are they roads yonder?” said Skim, sitting under the laurels. “No better than accommodation roads. Dirt, they call ‘em. They’d s... ...he Crayford lot. Her folk come out of the ground here, nei- ther chalk nor forest, but wildishers. They sailed over to America—I’ve got it all writ do... ...ays!) had I known—if I had known— I would many times have bartered my poor laurels for the privilege, such as Tinsley and Herrera possess, of having a... ...s of which the Master interprets the meaning. Tinsley, bowed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his ca...

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...ittle Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, kneeling within the temple. Anashuya... ...kering corn. — O, may tranquillity walk by his elbow When wandering in the forest, if he love No other. — Hear, and may the indolent flocks Be plentifu... ... the North, Where men lie frozen in the glimmering snow; And in the flaming forests cower the lion And lioness, with all their whimpering cubs; And, ev... ...in a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel. O may she live like some green laurel Rooted in one dear perpetual place. My mind, because the minds that ... ...ty born? Ceremony’s a name for the rich horn, And custom for the spreading laurel tree. A MEDITATION IN TIME OF WAR FOR one throb of the artery, While... ... I that truth? Out of a medium’s mouth. Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh. 216 THE CO... ...of the sun And all the sensuality of the shade — A moment’s memory to that laurelled head. COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE, 1931 UNDER my window ledge the wat... ...down that glimmering belly move his mouth and sinewy tongue. What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young? FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH 30... ...me cliff sheltered bay Where wades the choir of love Proffering its sacred laurel crowns, They pitch their burdens off. 344 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W....

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...lf to the full of her incapacity to doubt; but she accepted resignedly the laurel of the founder, since she was in fact pretty well the doyenne, above... ...s quite expect of us and would be disappointed for us to fail of. This, as forestieri,” Mrs. Verver pursued, “would be our pull—if our pull were n’t i... ...nsations by the way, detached nervously the small wild blossoms of her dim forest, so that she could smile over them at least with the spacious appear... ... of enchantment, a green glade as romantic as one’s dream of an old German forest. The picture was veiled on the contrary with the dimness of trouble;...